Friends of mine are going to Australia next week. They will be there for 2 weeks. They will traveling with some friends of theirs all over Australia. They have told me they will look for a couple of mugs for me. Does anyone know of a tki bar or shop that has their own local mug?

Devilles Pad and the Hula Bula bar are both in Perth, Western Australia and both have their own mugs, but they are the only ones unfortunately. The LuWow is in Melbourne, Victoria and will have it's own mug at some stage but as Trader Tom mentioned they are using the Hula Bula mugs at the moment. They are not advertising them for sale but if your friends ask nicely and let them know they're from overseas i'm sure they'll sell some to them.

There is the Tiki Lounge and Bar (http://tikiloungeandbar.com) also in Melbourne but they don't have a mug.

And unfortunately, that's it. I did read the other day somewhere that a Tiki Bar has just opened in Sydney, New South Wales but i have no idea what its name is. I can't imagine they'd have a mug though.
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Thanks everyone for your replies. I'm not sure of everywhere they are going. I know going to see the Great Barrier Reef & they mentioned Queensland. I'll give them the links to these places & see if they'll be near any of them.

I was just thinking about my time on the Gold Coast and one day, after work, stopping
for a few beers at a polynesian themed restaurant...
I think it was out past Movie World on the Pacific Motorway or maybe on the Gold Coast Highway,
can't remember exactly, anyway the place was built with large poles, thatch etc. and I
seem to recall Tikis, in the Kiwi style. A bit vague but it was 17 or 18 years ago.
I don't think it has been mentioned on Tiki Central, anybody know about it?
Maybe worth a visit if still there.

* I thought at the time that it was in an unusual location and that they would have had
a lot more business if they were closer to the coast.

On 2011-10-08 20:01, komohana wrote:I was just thinking about my time on the Gold Coast and one day, after work, stopping
for a few beers at a polynesian themed restaurant...
I think it was out past Movie World on the Pacific Motorway or maybe on the Gold Coast Highway,
can't remember exactly, anyway the place was built with large poles, thatch etc. and I
seem to recall Tikis, in the Kiwi style. A bit vague but it was 17 or 18 years ago.
I don't think it has been mentioned on Tiki Central, anybody know about it?
Maybe worth a visit if still there.

* I thought at the time that it was in an unusual location and that they would have had
a lot more business if they were closer to the coast.

Unfortunately it seems no longer to exist. I could only find some holiday apartment place called Pacific Lagoon. Shame.

Sling Lounge is the only tiki-ish place in Brisbane I've encountered in my research - http://www.slinglounge.com/. Well, the menu features a few tiki drinks at pages 34-36 - yes, it's a huge list! Interestingly the Zombie, credited as the Don The Beachcomber recipe, is actually the 1950 one, and not the 1934 recipe Beachbum Berry has identified as the definitive Don one. Which is good, 'cos I love the 1950 recipe! (guess who attended Beachbum's Zombie seminar complete with Zombie tasting in Berlin on Sunday?!)

I contacted the Kenaninui dance troupe via email and they kindly replied
with the information that the Pacific Lagoon was bought by a consortium
who turned the restaurant into a tavern called "Trader Dukes".

I had a look around via Google Earth at street level but couldn't see
anything, can't find any pictures on the internet either.

edit:
Comes up in Google Earth as Hollywood Plaza Tavern, 22 Siganto Dve. Helensvale,
same address given as Trader Dukes.
Behind the tavern you can see the green roof with the two circular sections incorporated,
I think this is the place I visited.

Good research komohana! What a shame, sounds like it was in the style of the tiki palaces that once graced many American cities! May be worth a visit if we're in the area. Trader Duke's is quite tiki sounding actually, but doesn't sound like it's that kind of gaff sadly.